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YOUTILITY Why Smart Marketing Is About Help, Not Hype The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to your company's success. You're not competing for attention only against other, similar products. You're competing for attention against everything.

B2B Marketing Insider by Michael Brenner discusses the latest on Social Business, Content Marketing and more.

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I was having one of those annoying customer problems - you know, where I'm the annoying customer? The one who doesn't know anything, in this case. You see, I'd had an accident and somehow shredded my Macbook Air cable, though I had no idea how this had happened.

The Altimeter Group is at it again. Just when we thought we had social business understood, they released a new report today that turns traditional business models completely upside down. The Collaborative Economy is defined as an economic model where ownership and access are shared between corporations, startups, and people.

Brian develops strategies and builds search visibility and social marketing fanbases for companies of all sizes, including well known entities such as Universal Studios, The U.S. Army, Hardee's and Carl's Jr. He has been quoted and profiled by Information Week, ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, Mashable, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc.

The web is a constantly evolving organism that can seem complicated and difficult to keep up with ... if you're not a hard-core programmer. So what's a content producer - someone who's building an audience to build their business - to do? Should you become a coder?

Facebook provided new insight into their news feed algorithm, as well as announced a subtle change to its functionality. This is critical information for B2B marketers who use Facebook to connect with customers and prospects. According to a recent study by Forrester, 39% of B2B decision makers use Facebook for business purposes.

Can you remember the last time you were cold called by a company? I can. I remember that familiar embarrassed, awkward feeling wash over me as a complete stranger proceeded to subject me to a series of ill structured, and ill-concealed, sales questions in an attempt to 'open me up'.

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Are you looking for a better way to manage your social activities? Are you wondering what tools can help your social media marketing? To discover free or low-cost tools to simplify your social media marketing, I interview Ian Cleary for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.

My friends over at HubSpot published a deck on Slideshare called The HubSpot Culture Code: Creating a Company We Love. The presentation deck started out as an internal document years ago (it doubles as the company handbook). As a company who values transparency (and inbound marketing), they decided to share it with the community as a manifesto.

A lot of great, sustainable brands have really lousy marketing. Metz Consulting devises customized social strategies and robust implementations to help these brands turn their actions and behaviors on the social Internet into outcomes that achieve their business objectives. The benefits are that the brand receives peace-of-mind in knowing that their marketing is holistic, permission-based, relevant and kind.

Ranked by Forbes as one of the top 10 influencers in social media , he has been called "an unstoppable force of nature ," "the best corporate social media lead on the planet ," and Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, called him "."

Social media keynote speaker Neal Schaffer provides social media strategy consulting services. Windmill Networking is his website and social media blog.

CrowdOptic 's developers are one of a handful of folks who are pushing new kinds of location features thanks to the new sensor platform that is known as Google Glass. Glass is the first consumer product that can share where you are looking. CrowdOptic does something similar by just using the cameras.

In each network, and across multiple social streams, you're fed a visual buffet of seflies, travel, food, fashion, and celebrations. In assemblage, they tell the story of life well lived, or at least a life well curated. At the center of each of these experiences is the person living and sharing them in real time.

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Are you looking for a better way to manage your social activities? Are you wondering what tools can help your social media marketing? To discover free or low-cost tools to simplify your social media marketing, I interview Ian Cleary for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.

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If you're still reading this, then let me thank you and mention that it means you are always striving to be a better marketer. You want the latest techniques to generate more sales for your business, despite how busy your schedule is. Do you have tips to share with the community here?

Why Would You Use The Hashtag #Infographic Have you seen people using the #Hashtag and thought, what is the point of that? Many of us probably thought as long as we stayed away from Twitter, we were safe from the hashtag... then it reared its ugly head on Facebook.